Woven carrier.



v. H. JENNINGS. WOVEN CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 7. l9l7.

1,275,436. Patented Aug. 13, 1918.

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, VICTOR 1i. JENNINGS, or wononsrnn, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 UNIvnRsAL PATENTS COMPANY, OF

RHODE ISLAND.

I To all' w k om it mcyconcerm I Be'it known thatI, VICTOR H. JENNrNGs, citizen of the United States, residing at Worcester,

. accompanying drawings.

-The invention'has relation to woven carriers of the class having pocketswith closed the pockets are dibottoms and in which vided above said bottoms into compart-.

ments, one in front of another, by transverse cially in the case 'of of those employed as cartridge-carriers, but

vertical partitions. It is applicable espe carriers on the order improvements in the constructional features of partitioned closed-bottom carrier-.pocke -ets, toenable carriers having such pockets; to be produced by simplified weavingoperaeif' ftions and appliances, facilitate and expe.-*--

ditetheir production, and lessen the cost 5 -0f manufacturing. Heretofore, carriers of "this class have jectis to provide for the production of a i double or two-ply thickness dividing the pocket into front and rear compartments above the closed bottom,'with such partitlon l mechanism employing orate pattern mechanism. The costof production has been considerable-I Another obpartitioned pocket having a front whichis smooth and free from gathers or wrinkles in the county of Worcester, j "Stateof Massachusetts, have inventeda certain new and useful Improvement in Woven Carriers, of which the following is .a speci- .1 fication, reference-being had therein to the n produced bycompli- Gated operations and procedure in weaving, and by the employment of special loom extensive and elab-u in the lower part; thereof. Heretofore, in"

order to secure the required reduction in the- "size of the lower portions'of' pockets having supper portions of the required fullness} and internal capacity, it'has been customary to in a carrier furlower portions in the course of the weaving; The invention consists nished with a woven' pocket havingits bot tom closed'in the weaving, and also'having one or more flat transverse partitions of Specification bf LettersPatentf Patented. Aug. 13, 1918. i Application filed May 7, 1917. Serial No. 167,092,

: 'tions ofthe pocket side-walls, which respecvtlvely are doubled inwardly upon themselves in. vertically-extending folds having the two sides of each thereof secured together flatwise, and with the inner portions of the two opposite folds secured together. Th'e'drawings illustrate a woven carrier embodying the. invention.

' Figure l of the drawings is a front view of, a single pocket, with a portion of. its

frontbroken away.

Fig. 2 is .a top view .of thesaid pocket.

' Fig. 3 is a .frontview of the woven pocket vblank'before being finished.

Fig-.4 is a View looking at thelo wer edge of the said blank.

Fig. 5 is a top view of the .said blank,

representing the latter as havingthe middle portion of its side-walls brought together .andfastened together, asin formingga par= titlon.

1 Fig. 6 is a side view of the blank in the V '7 condition in Fig. 5.'

The illustrated embodiment of the inven tion is formed, with a single partition. A carrier having two partitions, or even more, may be produced, as will be apparent, by

which .it is represented in an extension of the same principles that are utilized in producing the single partition that ,is herein shown.

In the drawings, '1 designates a portion ofthe body-web or band of 'a carrier, such .;-portion being located at one side, laterally,

of the pocket which isabout to bexdescribed.

:2, Figs. '2 and 5, is the pocket-back, it being a continuation of the saidbody-web or band.

.3 is the pocket-fronu'it being integrally joinediin the weaving to thepocket-back at, the bottom of the-pocket, as shown best in Figs. 4 and 6; 4:, in Fig. 2, is a partition intermediate the pocket-back and pocket front, dividing thepocketabove its closed bottom 5zinto front and rear' compartments 6Yand 7. At 8 is a. portionof the body-web or; band which i located; at the otherside,

pocket usually will-be supplied with a cover- 1 flap of approved. character, and with' fasteninthejinvention,

or partitions formed of intermediate pore, The formation of the partition .4iis shown 1' laterally, of the pocket. --In' .practicefthei .tendmg best in Fig. 2, which illustrates its double or two-ply thickness, and the manner in 'which intermediateportions of the pocket side-walls are'doubled-or folded inwardly upon themselves in vertically-extending folds (see also Fig. 1) having the'two sides of each thereof close against each other fiat wise. Figs. 5 and 6 show how the inner por tions of the bends or folds are secured to' each other by a vertical line of stitches 9, and Fig. 1 shows at 10 some of the stitches by which the two sides of the respective folds are secured together fiatwise afterthe "folds have been connected together as in A line'of stitches 10 BX- across the top of the partition.v throughout substantially the width of the Figs. 5 and 6.

pocket, so as tobind the double or two-ply thickness of the partition together as in Fig. 2, is sufficient to secure the two sides together fiatwise. WVhenit is desired to produce a pocket which tapers transversely toward its bottom as in Fig. 1, the-bends orfolds may be secured together-so astooverlap with each other in a line that is some what inclined or oblique transversely.

To permit of theinfolding of-the pocket side-walls it is necessary that in the case of the pocket as produced in a loom the side-walls should be of unusual relative dimensions in the direction from the pocketback to the pocket-front. The production of a pocket with side-walls of such relative dimensions would be difficult or impossible if the construction of the pocket, as woven,

and the procedure in weaving, should be the same as-heretofore 1n the case of pockets notwoven with partitions.

and preferably, the pocketor pocket-blank is woven as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4, I

namely with sidewall web-portions :14, which are free at their lower edges. The

. said side-wall web-portions are produced as plainwebstrips of the requlred proportions in the said portion 1- of the body-web or band are left idle while theremainder of such warp threads are interwoven with weftthread or filling to form a separate ply. having upper and lower selvages. Theweaving of this separate ply is continued until a side-wall web-portion 14 of dimensions which will permit theinfolding, and

afford the desired internal'capacity'of the compartments 6 and 7, has been produced. A continuation of the separate ply forming rateply, then Accordingly,

;web as woven in a loom, is produced.

the side-wall web-portion 14 forms also the pocket-front 3, but the pocket-front 3 and the pocket-back 2 are woven concurrently by causing the weft-thread or filling to pass first from the edge of the web at which "the open mouth of the pocket is located,

through the warp-threads ofthe said sepaback to the starting edge of the web through the warp-threads which were left idle durlng the weaving of sidewall web-portion. 14, and then reversely through the latter warprthreads and back through those of the separate ply to the starting edge'again, and so on as before.

This-'mode of weaving produces a pocketfront and apocket-back which are united integrally at the bottom .of'the pocket in the weaving, bymeansofthe weft-thread or filling passing flOIIlzthQ ply constituting the pocket-front to the ply constituting the pocket-back, and vice versa,

and as usual, also, it provides the pocket-front and pocket-back, respectively, with selvages at the open mouth of the pocket. The weaving of the pocket-front and pocket-back concurrently is continued until they havebeen produced of the required dimensions for a pocket of the'desiredwidth from side to side. Preferably they will be equal, although to a certain extent a greaternumber of picks of weft-thread or filling may be incorporated in well-known manner in the pocket-front than in the ocket-back. Then the weaving of the poo ct-back is discontinued, while theweavin of the separate ply is continuedto form t e. side-wall webportion 15 with upper and lower selvages. When the said side-wall web portion 15 has been produced of the required dimensions,

the said separate ply, and that constituting the pocket-back are bound togetherin the weaving, and theweaving of the portion 8 of the body-web or band is proceeded with. The next succeeding pocket,-of the carrierb a repetition of the described procedure. 'l he carrier-web *formed with a succession of pockets will, as usual, be divided up into lengths comprismgone or more pockets, as desired. I

What is claimedas the invention is 1. A carrier furnished with a woven pocket having its bottomclosed in the weaving, and also having a fiattransverse partition of double. or two-ply thickness; di-

viding the pocket ninto front and rear compartments above the closed bottom, with- Jsuch partition formed of intermediate portions of. the pocketside-walls, which. respectively are doubled inwardly .upon themselves in vertically-extending folds having the two sides of each thereof secured together flatwise, and with the inner portions of theZtwo-opposite folds secured together. 7 r

2. A carrier furnished with a woven pocket having its bottom closed in the weaving, and also having a flat transverse partition of double or two-ply thickness dividing the pocket into front and rear con'n partments above the closed bottom, with such partition formed of intermediate portions of the pocket side-walls having selvaged lower edges, which respectively are 10 doubled inwardly upon themselves in verg In testimony whereof I aflix my signature is in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

' ALICE M; TISDALE.

FRANCES A. MILLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Gommissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0."

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